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[Flying Dice]

That's another nice improvement here. I actually need pots on occasion just against swarms of mobs; on-level ordinary mobs can hit for anything from 1/4 to more than 1/2 of your HP on Veteran, at least if you're a squishy glass cannon. I even had a moment where I nearly died because I didn't notice a single vermin-tier mob crawling up behind me while I was nuking, and it took me to a barely-visible sliver in something like 3 seconds of inattention. Oh, and you can combine lower level potions into better ones through a NPC.

[V-Norrec]

You could do that in the old one too, I never saw a reason too though.  I never needed them, so why not just sell them?

[Girlinhat]

In the first one, I'd always end up combining them into mega-potions and then just heal-tanking a boss by downing a potion and standing still.  Sure, my ranger had all of zero defense, but when you're healing that fast there's a risk of the enemy's plade actually getting stuck as your flesh heals around it.

[Flying Dice]

I will admit, the blood gem shard I found with +15.2HP/second regen seems a bit overpowered for low-20 levels.

[Jay]

In case any of you are still trying to get Hamachi to work -- Hamachi doesn't truly create a "LAN", exactly.
It's more based on the tunneled IP concept than the LAN standards. Thus, since Torchlight's LAN play doesn't use the TCP/IP stack, you're out of luck.
I think Tunngle works, and I know Evolve does.

[SalmonGod]

Don't forget that the game will probably have a decent mod community to further extend its lifespan.

[Sordid]

And when I see my health globe draining rapidly and try to run away, the game interprets my click to mean that I want to attack an enemy or break a barrel that's nowhere near the spot that I clicked. And then I die.

That's actually something I've noticed too, and considering I never ever had that problem in the first TL it may be a bug. Curious.

I played T1 during the week before the release of T2 and it seems to me it was even worse in T1 than it is in T2. But like I said, every single Diablo-clone I've played since D1, including D2 and D3, has this problem.

[DemonOfWrath]

Right, I think I'm close to the end of act 2 with my Outlander (on elite, because I'm bravestupid) and I love the game so far, everything is nice and fast-paced, combat feels fantastic, I'm loving the graphics style despite my initial reaction to the opening cinematic being absolute horror, thanks to some unique gear my guy's been looking like a badass western desperado for about 20 levels. I only have one major, major gripe with the game and that is whenever it tries to up the difficulty it seems to do so in the most obnoxious, irritating ways possible.

Stuff like being forced into big fights against lots of hard hitting enemies in small cramped areas gets rather annoying when I'm playing essentially a glass cannon (I'm trying to keep my survivability up but it's not really working that well). I just had one instance where I had to kill a large melee boss (easy) BUT he had ~12 other guys with him, including ranged guys, one with some sort of bone prison-ish spell (that killed me a few times if I'm honest, as suddenly being unable to move with several things that can 2-3 shot me chasing me equals dead) and two other unique mobs including one who ressurects the normal guys, all in an area too small for me to avoid attacks until I was down to the 3 unique guys, that whole encounter was just NOT fun in the slightest, and I was 3 levels above the enemies!

Also the major boss fights tend to have the same pattern: Big guy who hits like a truck and take forever to kill in an area that infinitely spawns additional enemies. Damnit, pick one of the last two, not both, if the boss is gonna take forever to kill at least give me a fight where I can unload at it for more than 1-2 shots at a time without risking being swarmed by stuff.

Lastly, enemies that are only difficult because they take 10+ minutes to kill and seem to rely on me either getting really unlucky at some point, or that I start trying to unload for more than the 1-2 shots I'll normally throw because I'm bored with the fight and simply want it over with.

My apologies for the rant (I've just come out of 2 really irritating encounters in a row) but as I said, I love the game 99% of the time, and utterly despise it the remaining 1%.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Elite is less of an irritating bitch than diablo3 Inferno, if you want to talk about gimmicks that make the game harder.

[Killjoy]

So yeah, I'm well into 3 act now on Veteran.
So I guess I can talk a bit about the game.

It's good.. And on high difficulty, it's also quite hard. It somewhat feels much more like a Diablo 3, than the real Diablo 3 does.
My only real gripe with the game is that I have not found any way to respec my character, which is quite a shame as every class have several play styles.

[Rose]

I disagree about the diablo 3 part, tbh. It feels much more like a sequel to dungeon seige than to diablo, personally.

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[Hugehead]

There actually is a way to fully respec, although it's a little bit cheaty.

Exit torchlight 2
On your computer navigate to Documents\My Games\Runic Games\Torchlight 2\save
Open the folder(s) and edit the settings.txt file. Each folder appears to be for a different character.
Search for CONSOLE :0 and and change the 0 to 1 and save
Launch the game and make a game
open the console with Insert
type resetskills into the console, hit enter, you are done

DISCLAIMER: I haven't used this method, and it is quite likely to flag your character as a cheater in multiplayer, so use at your own risk.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I disagree about the diablo 3 part, tbh. It feels much more like a sequel to dungeon seige than to diablo, personally.

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Yes, I have felt that way too. It feels like a very good cross between Diablo 2, and Dungeon Siege 2. It's a better Dungeon Siege 3 than Dungeon Siege 3 was, in a lot of ways. Not sure on the Diablo 3 comparison, as I have not played it at all. But it really feels like a Dungeon Siege game, despite having almost nothing in common with it mechanics-wise.

Tried to start as an engineer on Normal. After a few hours of utterly annihilating everything without ever using a potion, decided that it might have been a poor choice. Now restarted as an Outlander on Veteran. Enjoying the game very much so far. ^_^

[Rose]

Is there a way to unsommon town portals? they're really annoying when there's one waaay back in the beginning of the act that's cluttering up the list.

[Flying Dice]

I'd honestly say that playing a glass cannon embermage is a lot easier than playing a glass cannon outlander, if only because of the ice-teleport.

In other news I've been messing around with my firewall to see if I can get MP to work in a way that'll let me connect to more than 1/60ish games.